Assistant Product Manager

Job Title:

Assistant Product Manager

Location:

Kozhikode

About Springer Nature Group:

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.Visit group.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature / @SpringerNatureGroup

About the Brand:

Macmillan Education provides world-class content in the most relevant, engaging andflexible formats to support students, teachers and institutions in lifelong learning. Visitmacmillaneducation.com and follow @MacmillanEducation / @MacmillanELT and more.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Demonstration and briefing to schools
• Planning, Coordinating, Conducting workshops
• Resource Person empanelment for workshops
• Collecting market and product feedback
• Responsible for product training to the Sales team
• Focus on town projects
  

Key relationships

Branch Managers, Regional Sales Teams, EPMs in other regions

Key Competencies

Qualification and Prerequisites

• Graduate, pref. B Ed.
• Excellent Communication (particularly in English)
• Open to 14 days travel in a month
  

Interpersonal Skills:

• Good communication skills, high enthusiasm, ability to build knowledge-based rapport with customers
• Ability to quickly understand the curriculum publishing market and the products
• A team player, but be able to work on own initiative and with minimal supervision
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal relationship skills
  

Mandatory KRAs:

• Execution of Marketing plans, Empanelment of Resource persons, workshop coordination, pan-India initiatives
• Conducting workshops focused and unique City workshops (front list driven)
• Product Demos & briefing making presentations while working with SE to cover their schools; highlighting USPs esp. with respect to competition (with inputs from editorial teams)
• Internal Product training sessions for SEs, highlighting new, key and distinguished product features
• Product feedback and reviews
• Creating and maintaining connect with user institutions
  

Desirable KRAs:

Knowledge sharing with other EPMs in conducting Workshops/productpresentations

Measurement criteria

:

• Numbers of RP empanelled, cost of touchpoint, quality of the empanelled resources (feedback received)
• Number of city workshops conducted in a region; feedback received
• Number of product demos conducted; feedback received
• Number of product reviews; feedback on quality of reviews
• Retention/acquisition results in schools where product demos are done by them & Schools feedback
• Number of trainings conducted; feedback received on flow and structure
• Reporting
• Updation of market news and product feedback on Google Doc or the system as indicated
• Updation of workshops and product demos reporting on MAST
• Closure report of calls / cold calls, discuss & agree with RM regarding frequency of reporting post every school visit / at the end of the day. RM to consolidate and send to the respective
• Learning and implementation of action points from feedback of Line Manager, RH (with inputs from BM)
• Monthly reporting on Google Doc or the system as indicated
  

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